PREFACE 



TO THE 



SECOND EDITION 



Within three months of its first issue, the need has arisen to print a new edition 

 of " Gardens for Small Country Houses." This seems proof enough that the volume, 

 concerned chiefly as it is with problems of garden design, has filled a place, hitherto 

 empty, on the bookshelves of the garden-loving public. 



The opportunity has been taken to expand the introductory chapter by 

 including in it some further examples of gardens, notable either for the apt use 

 which has been made of a hillside site, as at Markyate Cell and Owlpen Manor, or 

 for the possibilities of a walled enclosure, as at Edzell, or of topiary work in a 

 limited space, as at Bridge End. The measured drawings of these gardens which 

 are now reproduced could not be completed in time for the first edition, but it is 

 felt that their inclusion (especially in the case of the hillside examples) adds to 

 the practical value of the book. 



G. J. 



L. W. 



January, 1913. 



